‘All this work was made in the three years since I had my first child. There are collages on aluminium, little sculptures, a video and an animation. The work in the exhibition is a result of having to change the way I make art in order to accommodate being a dad.’

Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau creates sculptures, drawings, paintings, performances and videos. His blackly humorous work addresses ugliness, taste, and the ambiguities of language and objects. He is currently undertaking a practice based PhD at Kingston School of Art where he is researching ambiguity in performance and video. He runs the MA Fine Art: Sculpture at Camberwell College of Arts. He was an Open School East Associate in 2014, founded The Bad Vibes Club, which is a forum for research into negative states, and he runs Radio Anti with Ross Jardine. He lives and works in London.